Bonnie,Being a sailor, you might be interested to know that maritime author, James L. Nelson, has started a blog (Red Over Red) that will probably focus on that activity. Here is a link in case you would like to check it out: http://jameslnelson.blogspot.com/I met Jim once, and he is a very personable and enthusiastic spokesman for his craft.Ol' P

Peconic Puffin, we raced on Sunday. Saturday I would've left it to the windsurfers - those gusts were way too high for me.

Sunday was absolutely gorgeous, as I said, we had some great racing, I'm just not as experienced as the rest of the sailors who were out that day - I can have a blast in 10-15 kts if it's steady; Sunday was very gusty & shifty & I still get a bit flummoxed in those conditions - not good enough to respond instinctively to rapid changes, I have to think everything through & then try to do what I've thought about & by the time I finish doing whatever it is the wind has shifted 3 more times & then I look around to see where the mark has gotten to and...aw, shoot, how the heck did I end up all the way over here???

Yeesh.

Ol' P, I don't know if I deserve the sobriquet of "sailor" these days. Still enjoy reading the adventures of people who are sailors though so I will take a look at Mr. Nelson's blog & add to my new blogrolls (whenever I get to those, I'm so bad at maintenance).